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Finding his identity as a dancer as his career advances has been both challenging and incredibly rewarding for [Taylor] Stanley, who was promoted to principal dancer just over a year ago. "It can take a while to understand what this craft means to you personally," he said, to "look to other dancers as a mechanism of growth" rather than competition, and "to recognize my own strengths and weaknesses but know that they don't define who I am."

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A last-minute change in the program order put the Balanchine first, followed by Martins and then Peck, exactly as it should be: a nutshell version of the evolution of NYCB—and ballet in general—over 60 years. It offered an electrifying glimpse of the total freedom that can be found within the form, and also a reassuring reminder of the restraint supporting that freedom.

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This production is directed by Tony Award winner Julie Taymor ("The Lion King") and will star British actor Clive Owen ("Gosford Park," "Children of Men"). Previews are set to begin Oct. 7, with the official opening date Oct. 26 at New York's Cort Theater.

In an email, Cong said he was recommended to the show's producers by Li CunXin, the artistic director of Australia's Queensland Ballet, whose autobiography "Mao's Last Dancer" was the subject of the 2009 film of the same name.

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Mr. Ratmansky is the finest choreographer working full-time in ballet today, but what’s going on in this waffly double duet? The dancers (Stella Abrera and Marcelo Gomes; Sarah Lane and Alban Lendorf are the first cast) are engaging, yet phrase by phrase this seems one of his most expressively incoherent creations. I sense no “lieu cher”; and nothing gets beneath the music’s surface. And excessive side lighting, by Brad Fields, makes it hard to identify the dancers.

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A ballet teacheris charged with sexual contact with a 17-year-old student.

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Alexander Boitsov, a former principal with major companies in Russia, is awaiting extradition from New York on a single count of unlawful sexual contact, said Master Cpl. Mark Hoffman, a Dover police spokesman.

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The gala, scheduled for Aug. 18, will feature performances by guest artists including Misty Copeland and Alexandre Hammoudi of American Ballet Theatre and Ryoichi Hirano of The Royal Ballet, along with ballet dancers from companies such as San Francisco Ballet and New York City Ballet.

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The company’s famous speed and daring highlighted Peter Martins’ “Fearful Symmetries” and Justin Peck’s new “The Times Are Racing,” after NYCB co-founder George Balanchine’s glorious “Stars and Stripes,” usually an evening’s capper, opened the program.